I just read an article in the New Yorker about the role of charisma in making a good leader called The Choice: The Clinton-Obama battle reveals two very different ideas of the Presidency. The article contrasts Clinton as capable of navigating the government’s beauracracy toward incremental (but lasting?) change and Obama as a transformational idealist [...]
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2008 US Presidential Election, Vol. 2: What Makes A Good President and the Vulnerability Of Hope
2008.02.06
2008 US Presidential Election, Vol. 1: Civic Duty
2008.01.16
I was just walking home from work and saw that the little sandwich board sign the town puts up to alert people that an election looms had been covered with snow. I had dutifully walked out onto the median and started kicking the snow off of it when two twenty-something, urban-clad white guys appeared. One [...]